Shanxi Province coal output up 18 pct in first 4 months
Shanghai. May 26. INTERFAX-CHINA - China's coal-rich Shanxi Province boosted coal output 18.33 percent year-on-year to 256 million tons in the first four months of 2011, according to statistics released by the Shanxi provincial government May 26.
According to the statistics, Shanxi exported 179.39 million tons of coal to other parts of China and abroad over the period, up 7.69 percent from the same period last year.
The province's average coal wholesale price rose 6.42 percent from the same period a year earlier to hit RMB 597 ($91.99) per ton, an increase of RMB 36 ($5.55).
Meanwhile, Shanxi's coal output in 2010 was 740 million tons, up 20.4 percent year-on-year, making it China's second largest coal producing region after Inner Mongolia.
The provincial government is targeting coal output of 780 million tons in 2011, a year-on-year increase of about 5.4 percent.
- WV